Palm oil

Promoting sustainability

In 2002, WWF initiated the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) along with AAK, Golden Hope Plantations, Migros, Malaysian Palm Oil Association, Sainsbury’s and Unilever. The organisation has now worked for almost a decade to promote the growth and use of sustainable palm oil worldwide. As a founder member, AAK continues to be highly involved at all levels from the Executive Board to working groups.

Our commitment to sustainable palm oil is also underlined by our subsidiary, GreenPalm, which we founded in 2008 to establish a web-based platform to allow the trade in certificates for RSPO-certified sustainable palm oil.

The GreenPalm initiative and our commitment to RSPO are our promise to stakeholders that we care about responsible growth in the palm oil supply chain.

Due to our position in the palm oil supply chain, we are fully dependent on the availability of supply of physical, segregated sustainable palm oil. Customer requirements define the kind of palm oil we deliver. We see increasing demands for sustainable palm oil. In preparation for the demand we anticipate will come, seven of our production plants have obtained RSPO Supply Chain Certification and are ready to produce sustainable palm oil as required. Our overall aim, as stated in the annual report to the RSPO, is for all palm oil used in AAK’s production plants to be RSPO-certified sustainable palm oil by the end of 2015, subject to supply.